As an amateur historian of this sad century whose time is almost up, I would like to reflect upon six lessons I have learned in my studies. Folks who wish to live free and prosperous in the next century would do well to understand the failures of the past.

LESSON NO. 1: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and take you someplace you do not want to go because of who you are or what you think -- kill him. If you can, kill the politician who sent him. You will likely die anyway, and you will be saving someone else the same fate. For it is a universal truth that the intended victims always far outnumber the tyrant's executioners. Any nation which practices this lesson will quickly run out of executioners and tyrants, or they will run out of it.

LESSON NO. 2: If a bureaucrat, or a soldier sent by a bureaucrat, comes to knock down your door and confiscate your firearms -- kill him. The disarmament of law-abiding citizens is the required precursor to genocide.

LESSON NO. 3: If a bureaucrat tells you that he must know if you have a firearm so he can put your name on a list for the common good, or wants to issue you an identity card so that you be more easily identified -- tell him to go to hell. Registration of people and firearms is the required precursor to the tyranny which permits genocide. Bureaucrats cannot send soldiers to doors that are not on their list.

LESSON NO. 4: Believe actions, not words. Tyrants are consummate liars. Just because a tyrant is "democratically elected" does not mean he believes in democracy. Reference Adolf Hitler, 1932.

And just because a would-be tyrant mouths words of reverence to law and justice, or takes a solemn oath to uphold a constitution, does not mean be believes such concepts apply to him. Reference Bill Clinton, among others.

The language of the lie is just another tool of killers. A sign saying "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Makes You Free) posted above an execution camp gate does not mean that anybody gets out of there alive, and a room labeled "Showers" does not necessarily make you clean. Bill Clinton notwithstanding, the meaning of "is" is plain when such perverted language gets you killed. While all tyrants are liars, it is true that not all political liars are would-be tyrants -- but they bear close watching. And keep your rifle handy.

LESSON NO. 5: Our constitutional republic as crafted by the Founders is the worst form of government in the world, except when compared to all the others. Capitalism, as well, is a terrible way to run an economy, except when compared to all other economic systems. Unrestrained democracy is best expressed as three wolves and a sheep sitting down to vote on what to have for dinner. The horrors of collectivism in all its forms -- socialism, communism, national socialism, fascism -- have been demonstrated beyond dispute by considerable wasteful trial and bloody error. Leaders such as Bill Clinton who view the Constitution as inconvenient and ignorable are harbingers of tyranny.

LESSON NO. 6: While nations do not always get the leaders they deserve, they always get the leaders they tolerate. And anyone who tells you that "It Can't Happen Here" is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no "house rule" that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos. Dictators count on the assistance of people who are complacent, fearful, envious, lazy and corrupt. While there is no "Collective guilt" to the crimes of a regime (all such crimes being committed by specific criminal individuals), there is certainly "collective responsibility" -- especially for those who watch the criminals at work without objecting or interfering.

A French journalist of the last century wrote: "I must speak out, for I will not be an accomplice." Evil tyrants require, indeed they depend upon, willing and unwilling accomplices -- good people who would never think of harming a soul themselves. Lenin called such people "useful idiots."

De Tocqueville observed that "America is great because America is good. When America ceases to be good, she will cease to be great." As related in the Old Testament, God judged nations based upon the immorality and criminality of their leaders. Entire peoples were scourged because of their failure to remove corrupt leaders.

As we move from the Twentieth Century into the Twenty-First, we should take care to remember the ancient story of Sodom and Gommorrah. If we wish to avoid the butchery of the Twentieth Century and the righteous judgment of the God of our antiquity, we would do well to keep our Bibles, our Constitution and our firearms close at hand.

All people have an iherent right to self-defense. All Americans have a natural law right, codified in the 2nd Amendment, to keep and bear arms. Jews have been horribly oppressed over the centuries, and were, within the living memory of some still inhabiting this dustball, subjected to a genocide - and are STILL subect to the threat of a reply in the Mideast.

As a human being, as an American and as a Jew, I will NEVER, NEVER, NEVER surrender my arms, or even register them.

Registration has but one purpose - later confiscation. Confiscation from otherwise law-abiding citizens has but one purpose - permitting the oppression of each and every such person WITH IMPUNITY by a tyrant, up to and including literally genocide.

I've watched LOTS of films and read LOTS of books about the Nazi's attempt to exterminate my people - not once did I see or read about a cattle car in which there was found a firearm, nor in which a firearm was recovered from the crematoria. Once you're taken away, you're toast (maybe literally), so I'll take that tip.

Anyone wants to take my guns, you'll have to kill me to do it. Just bring along a bunch of body bags for your crew, and be careful not to slip on all of the loose brass surrounding my rapidly cooling body.

MOLON LABE, fothermuckers!Never again! (But IF again, not for free).

Yours truly,

An ideological descendant of King David, Judah Maccabbee, Bar Kochba and the Bielski Brothers.

What we need is not "gun registration and licensing". What we need is a new Militia Act re-affirming once and for all that the people are the militia and as such, have the right and the duty to own, maintain, and be proficient in the use of personal firearms.

I don't want to stop the Brady Bunch. I want to arm everyone who is willing to be trained!

We moved a lot. I went to six different schools in five different states in the first grade alone. Things slowed down after that but I still attended another half dozen schools even though all my high school was in one place.

Everyone of them taught these lessons. We were a better and stronger people then. Somewhere along the way our blood has thinned and turned pale and tolerance for discomfort of any kind has burgeoned until we are as useless as eunichs in fertility clinic.

As for Anonymous, the Jew, mind if I stand next to ya? I'm not Jewish, but would be happy to stand next to you literally or figuratively.

We are fast approaching the time when enough is enough. Restoration will need to occur soon or not at all.

Where will anyone of us draw the line in the sand? At the ballot box? the complaint box? the 'tax' box? the ID regisistration box? the mala prohibitum law box? the firearms registration box? the firearms confiscation box? the denial of other rights box? the boxcar? the FEMA 'help' camp box? the execution wall box? Alas, some of these choices will be too late to be effective in saving us or the Republic. Don't be too late to be effective.

This is better than all the history classes I took since elementary school, COMBINED.

Re: Anonymous. I wholly understand your grief at what happened to your people during these dark times.

Once again, I would have given anything to be transported back in time to Poland in the 1940s with my trusty John Bodine rolling block and plenty of ammo and go Charlie Quintard all over the Nazi's ass. Just give me a nice hill 1000 yards away from the enemy, plenty of trees and shrubs, and I guarantee I can produce an entire freight-train load of dead and rotting Nazis by the end of the day. I can just imagine what I would do to fuck those scumbags up and make them wish they never swore loyalty to that ugly, flatulous demon called Hitler.

Has it occurred to anyone that President Obama is not acting in good faith and actually wants to put the country in default?First, we are in this situation because of him and the former Democrat majority in Congress. No RESPONSIBLE leader would have spenthis country into bankruptcy unless he WANTED to to see his country fall into disarray. He has pretty much destroyed the credit of theUnited States and debased the dollar.He has spent trillions of dollars, supposedly to bring the country out of economic chaos. In reality, he has wasted most of that money,growing government when he should have been cutting back. He has funneled millions to his left wing buddies, (eg La Raza, ACORN, etc.)Unemployment is higher than ever and what jobs were created were government jobs at an estimated cost of $270,000 per job.Is anyone else seeing a pattern?He couldn't have done more damage if he were a Soviet Agent!!!!I think he sees that he is running out of time. The birth Certificate, his Social Security Number, the economy, unemployment, National Securitythe "Dream Act" and more are all coming home to roost and he sees he is going to be a one term President. His job now is to do as muchdamage to the country economically (debt crisis), militarily (cutting spending and gays), diplomatically(showing us to be an unreliable ally)as he can before he goes.His political base is crumbling because even they see he is wrong on almost every count. Imagine what he could do with "Executive Orders" alone.It is time for Congress to act and IMPEACH Barak Hussein Obama before he does any more damage.

What Does It Mean To Be A "Three Percenter"?

These four principles -- moral strength, physical readiness, no first use of force and no targeting of innocents -- are the hallmarks of the Three Percent ideal. Anyone who cannot accept them as a self-imposed discipline in the fight to restore the Founders' Republic should find something else to do and cease calling themselves a "Three Percenter."

No, I'm NOT Charlie. I am ARMED.

Edmund Burke reconsidered in the light of 20th Century funeral pyres.

"Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it." -- Kurt Hofmann.

The Nyberg Battle Flag of the Three Percent

This time we are ALL Davidians. This time, we are all Jews, Kulaks, "counter-revolutionists" and "enemies of the state." We are now a despised minority within a country no longer our own.BUT WE WILL NOT BE DESPISED.

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Advice on child rearing from my son.

Everyone should grow up with simulated equipment from a heavy weapons platoon. It gives you a more well rounded education and an appreciation for the finer things in life. -- Sergeant Matthew Vanderboegh, United States Army.

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

On the efficacy of passive resistance in the face of the collectivist beast. . .

Had the Japanese got as far as India, Gandhi's theories of "passive resistance" would have floated down the Ganges River with his bayoneted, beheaded carcass. -- Mike Vanderboegh.

In the future . . .

When the histories are written, “National Rifle Association” will be cross-referenced with “Judenrat.” -- Mike Vanderboegh to Sebastian at "Snowflakes in Hell"

"Smash the bloody mirror."

If you find yourself through the looking glass, where the verities of the world you knew and loved no longer apply, there is only one thing to do. Knock the Red Queen on her ass, turn around, and smash the bloody mirror. -- Mike Vanderboegh

From Kurt Hoffman over at Armed and Safe.

"I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable."

From long experience myself, I can only say, "You betcha."

"Only cowards dare cringe."

The fears of man are many. He fears the shadow of death and the closed doors of the future. He is afraid for his friends and for his sons and of the specter of tomorrow. All his life's journey he walks in the lonely corridors of his controlled fears, if he is a man. For only fools will strut, and only cowards dare cringe. -- James Warner Bellah, "Spanish Man's Grave" in Reveille, Curtis Publishing, 1947.

"We fight an enemy that never sleeps."

"As our enemies work bit by bit to deconstruct, we must work bit by bit to REconstruct. Be mindful where we should be. Set goals. We fight an enemy that never sleeps. We must learn to sleep less." -- Mike H. at What McAuliffe Said

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.